I actually think Maresca is right and is ahead in his understanding of the modern game. You can't play your best team all season through all league, cup and European football. If players start to understand this and mentally prepare to play some games and miss others it could beer a huge advantage for them and the club. I'm more and more detached from modern football and don't like this rotation policy but it's quite simply necessary in the modern game. I can see more subs in the future and even different squads for different competitions like the League Cup and FA Cup. It's all very American, I don't like it but I think Maresca is ahead of the curve.
Bring back muddy pitches and long ball and hooliganism and players having steak before the game and getting the bus to training real death trap terraces rather than the woke safe standing nonsense and Chelsea struggling to get 10,000 in and making it through four competitions with only nine players while doing shifts down the pit in between and nobody wearing replica shirts and absolutely rampant racism/homophobia/sexism and the train windows being smashed in as you arrive. This is what Labour and the wokes have taken from you. Maybe not the racism. Pikey chants are fine as is singing “where’s your caravan” to any player with long-ish hair.
I think he’s a decent manager. The Pompey link wouldn’t help but you could do a lot worse. Knows the league and all that.
It'd be a disaster mate. He'd got no leeway whatsoever and fans would be after him after one defeat. Be beyond daft to appoint a Pompey fan after the worst run in the entire history of the club. Wouldn't put it past this lot
Id have picked him as Swansea's next manager when they sack Sheehan tomorrow after Ipswich beat them. Him or Carrick. Swansea won't pay either enough though, so we'll get Joe Allen after a reasonably successful caretaker period in which they win two games out of eight.
